THe Red i have produces in a 3 week or so window in SPringi have a couple of everbearing, and maybe they are just too youngbut, i rarely see any fruit on themwhen i do, the fruit are very small and shriveled.i grew 2 of them from cutting from someone on hereanother i got from Wellspring garden as a tissue culturethey have 1 more year and they get the axe if i dont get good fruit.

There is a tree near my house (in Wall MArt parking lot)that produces tons of huge very tasty fruit.again, just for a few weeks, at the same time as mine.but the tree only has a couple of branches low enough to reachand i am not going to put a ladder in a parking lot to get fruit... LOL

Finally saw new growth on the noir de spain branch. With all other varieties already fruiting on the tree, I was afraid the noir de spain (in the shadiest spot) is gone.

Started harvesting alleged "white" mulberry fruits, they become sweet only if the color turns completely black, a tint of red is still too tart for my taste. Both Pakistani and white pakistani will take couple more weeks I guess. I put up bird netting below the tree to hopefully catch ripe fruits. Then I realize how much unripe pakistani fruits fall before maturing, wow.

Is unripe fruit fall normal? I see them fall after I put on bird netting. I thought it was rodents or birds before because I saw chew marks on new growth and the main trunk, and shredded leaves.

Idk, but white pakistani definitely has much much more fallen fruits than the "white" mulberry. Maybe they catch the wind more? Birds eat the "white" mulberry more, they haven't showed much interested in pakistani yet as these are slower to ripen.

And I finally tasted a white pakistani that probably fully ripened. Very sweet with a grassy touch I could not describe. Smells a little bit... milk-ish??? I don't know what am I talking about Definitely very different from regular pakistani.

My favorite daily fruit at this time of the year (april) is not grumichama, cherry of the rio grande, strawberry tree fruit, Rose Apples of various types, or mango as I have not had but one of my mangos being sweet as will happen in a few more weeks.

My favorite sweet daily treat and my best tasting fruit in April, before the mangos get sweeter at my house, is the typical black mulberry grown in south Florida. As those of us that have the black mulberry know, with a few trees you will probably get a month duration of fruit from about 4.15.17 to about 5.15.17. That's a lot of fruit compared to most other spring fruiting plants.

Will a few trees give you plenty of fruit? Yes, see the attached picture and plant a few if you don't have any.

In terms of varieties with the best flavor, here is a very simplified and general summary of things:Black mulberries taste better than red, and red mulberries have more flavor than white. The gold standard for Mulberry taste is Persian Black, a lot of other mulberry varieties do not taste nearly as good. The flavor of Pakistan mulberry is good but not as excellent as some of the other black varieties.

I have two everbearing white mulberry trees I bought from Walmart. In one year they have grown from 3 foot to almost 10 ft since hitting the rainy season here in Florida. When can I expect flowering and fruit?

Okay, been a while for this thread, but a few questions have gone unanswered. Peruvian is almost as good as Shangri-la. Similar size. Harvest time depends on heat..most people harvest April-may. Variety cannot be reliably pinpointed via leaves. Leaves vary a lot, but both shangri-la and Pakistani tend to have "whole" leaves with few, if any, fingers. Alba, nigra, rubra applies to bud color, NOT fruit color. White Pakistani and Australian are not that different. I have both grafted to a single rootstock. White pak tends to sugar sweet, with grassy undertones. Australian tend tooward melon undertones. I prefer Australian. I have a male that I believe is black beauty; if anyone wants scions, I'll gladly ship for postage once tree goes dormant (it's 70f here today, things barely starting dormancy). It's not clear that fruiting must be on seasoned wood, but I definitely get better fruiting if wood/branch is woodier. Nigra flavor is miles better; I know taste is subjective, but I cannot imagine anyone preferring rubra or alba if they have tasted ripe Nigra. Anyone have tips on rooting cuttings of Nigra? All rot for me. Looking to trade for some gelso Della Regina. I have Pakistani, shangri la, the two white fruited as per above.

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Standing in the bed of your pickup or on the roof of your vehicle could work. Also, prune the heck out that tree, it's in a Walmart parking lot so no one cares or knows what to do more so than you. Then you could get more fruit and easier to harvest.

There is a tree near my house (in Wall MArt parking lot)that produces tons of huge very tasty fruit.again, just for a few weeks, at the same time as mine.but the tree only has a couple of branches low enough to reachand i am not going to put a ladder in a parking lot to get fruit... LOL